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  • Nokia Makes Navigation Free!

    Nokia‘s done it. A strong and aggressive move! Nokia makes walk and drive navigation free on its smartphones, doubling size of mobile navigation market.

    All New Nokia GPS – Enabled smartphones will have new Ovi Maps App pre-loaded on it. It will have the local country map data and walk and drive navigation with access to location-aware Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.

    The benefits are immense ! Drivers will receive traffic information, assistance, safety guidance, speed warnings etc. Pedestrians will be guided to safe pedestrian-only zones and quick shortcuts. And this will work offline as well. Beautiful!

    Read the official Nokia Press Release!

  • InfoStretch @ Mobile World Congress 2010

    InfoStretch at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain: February 15 – 18, 2010 January 12, 2010

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    InfoStretch announces its participation at Mobile World Congress. This conference and exhibition will be held at the Fira de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain from February 15th through 18th, 2010.

    InfoStretch’s participation this year focuses on providing complete suite of mobile solutions for the leading and growing organizations across the world. InfoStretch offers end-to-end cost effective world-class solutions including:
    1. App Development – Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, Symbian, Maemo, J2ME
    2. App Testing
    3. Handset Testing
    4. Test Automation
    5. Localization
    6. Porting
    7. App Store Store Strategy & Aggregation
    8. Carrier Certification

    Carriers, OEMs, Mobile Development Companies and Mobile VAS Companies can visit our booth at Mobile World Congress and see the future of testing and mobile development solutions. InfoStretch will be demonstrating its latest mobile testing and certification solutions. If you are planning to be at the MWC, come visit us in Hall 7 and experience them firsthand !

    Visit us in Booth 7A58 (App Planet)

    InfoStretch encourages people to setup meetings with our team right away. This will help us to manage our busy schedules and maximize the business potential at MWC. So let us block our diaries ! Let us know of your interest – we will be happy to spend quality time with you !

    We look forward to interact with you at the Mobile World Congress in Hall 7, 7A58

  • Mobile Trends 2020

    TwentyTen is here ! What a decade it has been ! The Mobile World saw a plethora of changes. Many new technologies saw the light of the day. Chindia created a new pecking order in mobile subscribers ! New innovations represented the imaginative creativity of techgurus.

    People have moved to the next milestone TwentyTwenty. One of such interesting and collaborative vision is represented in Mobile Trends 2020. Credit to RudyDW.

    Mobile Trends 2020

    View more documents from rudydw.

    It speaks of all our favorite technologies and wish-list:

    Augmented Reality
    Emotions Based Social Search
    Location Based Services
    VOIP on CellPhones
    Contextual Information
    Innovative Mobile Designs
    Mobile Apps Will Rule
    Green Tech Phones
    Mobile Battery Performance
    Mobile Payments
    NFC
    Mobile Political Campaigns
    Mobile Environment Monitoring
    Mobile Health Care Delivery
    Tablet Devices
    Mobile Advertising
    ESP Sensors
    Implanted Bluetooth Ear and Microphone
    Digital Garbage
    Personal Digital Assistants

    Let us see !

  • Is Your App on Google Nexus One?

    The Google Nexus One is finally here ! Launched amidst lot of mystery and hype, it is making lot of waves.

    Read The Nexus One review at Engadget

    InfoStretch Mobile Team is flooded with inquiries for Android Apps. InfoStretch Mobile provides complete end-to-end mobile solutions including Mobile Application Development, Certification & Testing, App Store Solution, Localization and Porting. Our Mobile Team is burning the midnight oil to assist brand managers and IT heads to actualize their smartphone apps’ vision.

    Exciting times !

  • Idea’s Latest Ad: Save Paper, Use Mobile

    Check out the new ad of Idea on Environment. Thomas Friedman and all of us are happy ! The ad talks about using mobile phones instead of paper for daily activities and saving the earth. The ad is a wonderful example of consistent positioning, great idea and impeccable execution. It has its heart in right place – never mind the tree Abhishek!

    According to Idea, World over, millions of tonnes of trees get cut everyday to produce paper, leading to alarming rates of deforestation. The new IDEA TVC showcases how the mobile phone can be used as an efficient tool to read daily newspapers, generate e-bills, make payments and transactions, issue e-tickets and boarding passes; thereby saving tonnes of paper everyday.

    Idea has promoting the Future of Mobile in its own creative away. It is also demonstrating creative solutions to today’s complex problems. The earlier campaigns were – ‘Championing a world without caste’; ‘Championing a world in which no one suffers from the disability to communicate’; ‘Education for All’, ‘Participative Governance’, and the last ‘Walk When You Talk’ – addressed subjects such as Caste War, Disability to Communicate, Education, Democracy and Health, respectively. Now, ‘Environment’ is IDEA’s next big Idea!   

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    Cheers to Idea and Lowe, IDEA’s creative agency.

    In all these Ideas, the big Idea is the infinite possibilities of mobile phone ! As Einstein said, Imagination is more important than knowledge. Mobile phones are a part of our daily life and their role is only going to increase. It is the most personal tool. Every company, every brand manager has to think of how it can leverage the most important screen. Creative ideas, smart apps are one part of the answer. The other – Get a big Idea!

  • InfoStretch Is Hiring : Walk-In On Jan 9

    InfoStretch is hiring ! The Silicon-Valley based thought leader is augmenting its team in India. The fast growing organization needs highly passionate, energetic, self-driven and performance-biased professionals. The perks include opportunity to demonstrate leadership, create new practices and add fuel to the existing growth areas.

    Walk-In at Ahmedabad Centre on Jan 9, TwentyTen.

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    Lot of other positions as well !

  • Aditya’s New Snaps : Dec 2009

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  • Aditya’s New Snaps : Dec 2009

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  • Presentation Skills

    I was surfing for some information and I came across one of my old presentations on Presentation Skills. One of my subordinates had uploaded it on the net for the benefit of all. I was glad and realized that the principles remain true.

    I have embedded it here.

    Mckinsey Mind

  • Google Chrome for Mac

    Google Chrome for Mac is out !

    I downloaded it. It was quick. The browser looks clean and is fast. It has some features of Safari – when you open a tab, it shows gallery of recently opened sites. Let me try it out for a few days.

    Check its features here!

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